Polish Government Freezes Controversial Holocaust Law
Amid pressure from Israel and rising tensions between the two states, Poland will freeze its new controversial Holocaust law.
Amid pressure from Israel and rising tensions between the two states, Poland will freeze its new controversial Holocaust law.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday stressed the importance of accurately portraying the Nazi genocide of the Jewish people during World War II, subtly admonishing Warsaw for advancing a law that would criminalize accusing the Polish nation of complicity in Nazi crimes.
WARSAW, Poland — Warsaw’s mayor unveiled a monument Saturday to a World War II hero who volunteered to go to the Nazi’s Auschwitz death camp and informed firsthand on atrocities there but was later executed by Poland’s communist regime.
Nazi war criminal Alois Brunner, who was responsible for the deaths of an estimated 130,000 Jews, died in 2001 at the age of 89, locked up in a squalid Damascus basement, a French magazine reported Wednesday.
TEL AVIV – A Czech tour bus advertising Nazi death camp Auschwitz as an attractive holiday destination has been slammed by Jewish leaders and Holocaust survivors.
TEL AVIV – A former candidate parliamentary candidate on behalf of Canada’s Green Party has sparked outrage for releasing a video claiming that the Holocaust was a “six million lie” that never happened.
TEL AVIV – An Israeli high school principal caused controversy by canceling his school’s annual trip to former Nazi death camps in Poland because they were becoming “social occasions rather than learning experiences,” the Jerusalem Post reported. “I didn’t make the